I finally saw season 5 of ANGEL
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, January 11, 2007 21:52
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Well, I finally saw it. After waiting for months at the library, season 5 of ANGEL finally came in. I was curious as to whether or not it would live up to the hype I hear from you guys about it being the best season of them all.
Well, I'm listening to the commentary track to "Not Fade Away" right now, still high from the series finale. I gave up my weekend for this set, and I am so proud of it.
The funny eps were funnier ("Smile Time" was great, but "The Woman in Question" was a really funny Angel/Spike/catch up with the Buffy crew ep), the dramatic scenes were even more gut wrenching (Fred's transformation to Illyara and all it accompanied was really moving, and Cordelia's farewell was really sad) and the final scnee in the alley with all the monsters charging them and Angel's last line of "Let's go to work." was priceless.
I'm wondering if the BUFFY Season 8 comics coming out next month will tie in with ANGEL season 5?
Chris, I'm ready for ya. Let's geek out over the season.
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"There's only one "Return" ok, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi."
"Maybe we should start calling your friend 'Padme' because he loves 'Mannequin Skywalker' so much, Right? (imitating robot) Danger...danger...my name is Anakin...my shitty acting is ruining saga."
Excerpt of internet teaser for CLERKS 2.
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I'm so glad you saw this,
I really think that Mutant Enemy got to do some wonderful things in this final season:
Fred's transformation into Illyria was electrifying,
and fit so well w/the on-going theme of Angel losing his direction/being hollowed out and empty...
there was a lot of subtle stuff throughout this season,
and personally I loved the finale:
the open ended fight, which represents the fact that Angel never gets to stop fighting,
it is never over...there is no rest for the wicked.
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I had to own it. Fred to Illyria was brutally sad and awesome at the same time. ( LOVE how Amy pulled of playing Illyria! )
Cordy's farewell was beautiful, I thought. 'Where's Conner ? ' - Who ?
Loved the scene where Angel is looking at the video of Doyle. Someone on here said it was a 'forced' moment, but I thought it was touching and very thoughtful.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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I especially liked the Adam Baldwin cameo. But this is definately my favorite season. I love Illyria and especially the final episode. Absolutely fantastic.
I like the Castro because I know that when somebody is grabbing my ass, they're picking my pocket.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Loved the scene where Angel is looking at the video of Doyle. Someone on here said it was a 'forced' moment, but I thought it was touching and very thoughtful.
Actually, I thought this scene was definitely NOT forced and was especially poignant since Glenn was actually gone and that David was a friend of his. It brings to mind the statement...."No acting required."
"Well ya know, we studied bludgeoning in the academy first year but by the time you graduate, you just forget everything. I'm a bad cop." ----Laurence Dobson
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Ladysings: you took the words out of my mouth,
I found it extremely moving, and very true both to the characters and RL.
I have to admit Wesley dying (and letting Illyria 'lie' to him) was more moving than Fred's death...
but that was just me.
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Originally posted by embers:
I have to admit Wesley dying (and letting Illyria 'lie' to him) was more moving than Fred's death...but that was just me.
You know, it's funny. It took me the longest time to wrap my head around the concept that Fred's soul was TOTALLY gone and therefore Wesley would not be with her again in "heaven". (and also when I first saw the scene of Fred's death, it was like being kicked in the chest....and I couldn't watch it again for sometime without blubbering uncontrollably.) Therefore, Fred's death scene was more moving to me. But now that I have finally realized what Illyria REALLY meant when she said, "Would you like me to lie to you now?"....that scene has much more meaning for me.
"Well ya know, we studied bludgeoning in the academy first year but by the time you graduate, you just forget everything. I'm a bad cop." ----Laurence Dobson
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oh I'm still hoping that Wes & Illyria will be together again on Earth....
see in MY scenerio Wesley will be raised from the dead, as a zombie by his Father (who always wanted control over his son...and what better way? Besides remember when we learned that child Wes tried to raise a dead bird back to life? Whose books do you think he was reading?)
so anyway:
Zombie Wesley will be raising havoc, and of course Giles & Buffy want to kill him (they never liked him) so of course Angel & Illyria (and maybe Spike) come to figure out a way to rescue Zombie Wesley and bring him back to some kind of independent undead type life (maybe Willow will take pity and put his soul back in him?)
You can see I've given this some thought.
LOL
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....well believe you me, I am glad that you have! I am so frickin' upset that Wesley is gone. He was one of my favorite characters in both the Buffy/Angel 'verse. Now, can you apply this concept to Wash?!?!? LOL
"Well ya know, we studied bludgeoning in the academy first year but by the time you graduate, you just forget everything. I'm a bad cop." ----Laurence Dobson
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Originally posted by LadySings:
You know, it's funny. It took me the longest time to wrap my head around the concept that Fred's soul was TOTALLY gone
I still don't buy that. I mean, what source did that info come from? The creepy doctor. Why are we supposed to believe he's an expert on it? He wasn't even one of Illyria's accolytes, the way Knox was, was he? He'd just been paid off to carry out part of the plot--giving Gunn the upgrade in exchange for getting the sarcophogus out of customs.
And since the gang just bought it, and didn't do any further investigating on their own, who knows what the real story might be?
One of the rumors I remember hearing back when the show was ending was that in Joss' plans for S6, the gang was supposedly going to find some way to 'separate' Fred from Illyria, and Amy would then have played dual roles...
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